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Title
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To Dy [Dye] Blue
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Date
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1694/1795
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Description
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This recipe gives instructions for creating a blue dye for wool, using logwood and verdigris.
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Transcript
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To Dy Blue --
[inserted left margin: this will hand you to 5 pounds you may make it dy a pound] Take a quarter of a pound of log wood [y]n to Allom water the quarter & with one peny worth of Allom Must before the log wood be put in boyld a quarter of an houre the put in 3 quarters of a pound of wool & boyle in the log wood and Allom watter a quarter of an houre then take oute youre wool & put in to the dy 2 penyworth of verdigrece and the put in the wool a Gane & Smuther it Close [struck: then b[text loss]] then boyle Strong Chamberly & pore upon it. So lay it oute to Dry.
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Contributor
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Ochsner, Elizabeth
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Gerber, Steven
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Le, Vincent
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Grimm, Stephanie
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Source
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Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
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Publisher
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George Mason University Libraries
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Rights
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Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
